Alexander MacLaren
Alexander MacLaren
running hands voice
Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till He does. If you cannot hear His whisper, wait till you do. Take care of running before you are sent. Keep your wills in equipoise till God's hand gives the impulse and direction.
flower heart voice
As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must we, if we would know the joy of God, hold our souls, wills, hearts, and minds, still before Him, whose voice commands, whose love warns, whose truth makes fair our whole being. God speaks for the most part in such silence only. If the soul be full of tumult and jangling voices, His voice is little likely to be heard.
lord shall whom
Only he who can say, ''The Lord is my strength,'' can say, ''Of whom shall I be afraid?''
barren coasts fallen flying grace lies passed says summer
'The grace of God,'' says Luther, ''is like a flying summer shower.'' It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.
barren coasts fallen flying grace lies passed says summer
''The grace of God,'' says Luther, ''is like a flying summer shower.'' It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.
heaven holiness christ
Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.
faith doe christ
There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.
spiritual men understanding
Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature.-Belief or unbelief is a test of a man's whole spiritual condition, because it is the whole being, affections, will, conscience, as well as the understanding, which are concerned in it.
dark light long
Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.
jesus two sin
Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.
children father cry
My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?'
taken messages deliverance
The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed only, but it is to be taken into life as a guide.
christian jesus sky
The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.
god kindness daily-life
Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.